The Berean Call Podcast · Dave Hunt & T.A. McMahon

Are There Blood Moons Rising? with Mark Hitchcock (Part 2)

July 18, 2025·25 min·2 clips

Mark Hitchcock reveals why the 2015 blood moons cannot fulfill biblical prophecy about the tribulation.

Part two keeps the question tight. Tom McMahon treats blood moon teaching as a prophecy claim that has moved into the church, picked up excitement, and needs to be checked against the Bible. Berean checking is still the anchor. He sends listeners back to Acts 17:11 as the pattern for testing anyone who claims to teach from Scripture. Mark Hitchcock returns as the guest. He is introduced as pastor-teacher of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, and as the author of Blood Moons Rising. The tone is serious, and for good reason. The conversation does not treat prophecy curiosity as harmless if it dulls expectation or leaves believers open to fear. Hitchcock calls the pattern a problem. He agrees that some blood moon claims sound like fear-mongering and carry the smell of commercialization and merchandising. The warning then widens. One error, he says, tends to lead to another when teachers stop using Scripture as the plumb line. The pastoral worry is plain enough: people living in uncertain days can be worked over when prophecy teaching swaps hope for alarm. Tom presses the point. Are Christians who are not in the Word more exposed to blatant abuses of biblical prophecy? Hitchcock says yes. The fix is not a fresh system. It is a return to the Bible as the standard and the guardrail. The episode closes in a pastoral register. Hitchcock names the Word of God, the Spirit of God, and the people of God as help for believers. The final note stays Berean. Tom commends Hitchcock's work, thanks him, and leaves listeners with the program's standing charge to search the Scriptures.

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A sober check on prophecy claims that keeps returning to Scripture, not spectacle.

This episode treats blood moons as a test of biblical discernment, with Tom McMahon and Mark Hitchcock urging listeners to measure teaching against Scripture, as the Bereans did.

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If blood-moon prophecy has your attention, this keeps you anchored to the Bible.

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